For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 165: what you’re looking at

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2 = <q Bik Ce = Pe CHAPTER XXXII. | ANOTHER TALK WITH THE INSPECTOR. | As Faith rushed from the cloak-room she came sud- -denly upon Ben ‘Tyler, who was standing at the head of the stairs leading down into the private offices. “Oh, Mr. Tyler, do please tell me about poor Miss Brady!” she cried, eagerly. “I have only just heard that she has been arrested!” The detective smiled grimly at the eagerness in her manner, but he was nothing loath to relate his prowess. “She’s arrested all right! I nabbed her last night,’ he» said, promptly, “but she had covered her tracks pretty well. I had a deuce of a time to prove it!” Faith was still staring at him speechlessly, but with questioning eyes. She could not help feeling some curi- _ osity about the details of the story. “First, I had to find the boy that brought the candy to the store,’ went on the detective; “then I traced it step by step until I reached Mag Brady. Her brother is ina drug-store; it was through him she got the poison.” “And where is she now?” asked Faith, beginning to tremble. “Tn jail, where she belongs!” was the heartless answer. “Mr. Denton and I went to court this morning and had her locked up for safe keeping.” “Oh, I didn’t think he would do it!” said Faith, almost — ready tocry. “It is cruel, Mr.-Tyler! Oh, I am so sorry for Miss Brady!’ ss “Well, I ea t be sorry for a person who tried to © kill me, ” said the detective, sneeringly ; ; “but, then, Q m no saint like you, Miss Marvin.” Faith looked at him quickly and could see a sneer on his face. It was plain that he had no special respect for saintliness. When she reached her department she found every one comicbooks:.com